The picture isn’t too clear and the big pile amount will vary based on the type of bin you are sitting up when you tell me……However, the big pile is 1/4 inch screened material from a already thriving and existing bin and I always pull from the oldest bin so you are getting a great set of vermicompost. That means you can definitely use some of the bulk material in your garden, flower beds or even your house plants.
If you are buying this and I am shipping this to you, I will fill the bag as full as I can get in the shipping box and I keep the worms and cocoons separate so you can see exactly what you are getting. There will also be (as I can’t get them all out) some worms and cocoons in the existing bedding material. Which is a plus for you..
Typed instructions are included to help guide you.
You get 1/4 lb of bed run worms from the bin I pull the worms from, over 100 cocoons in varying hatch stages and up to 4 pounds of 1/4 inch screened bedding material.
The bins these are pulled from are given the following items…shredded cardboard, mulched leaves, wood chips and a small amount of rabbit manure (that disappears fast). So, from my experience in doing this the 1/4 inch screened material is small particles of leaves, wood chips and the magic ingredient of worm castings. The rabbit manure goes away in less than a week once I set up these bins to sell from. You will not be getting any rabbit manure as the worms have already processed it and turned it into castings (their poop).
*Disclaimer…. I usually weigh the worms out at 5 oz for local sales and 6 oz for mailing.